Brzezinski: Neocon prescriptions in Middle East are fatal for America
Regional-Israel-USA, Politics, 2/19/2008

Information Clearing House (informationclearinghouse.info) reported that Nathan Gardels editor-in-chief of the journal of social and political thought published by Blackwell/Oxford, and Global Services of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune in his interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski posed this question to the former National Security Advisor to President Carter "Doesn't military superiority as a blunt instrument lead to eternal enmity, not security?"

Brzezinski said "These neocon prescriptions, of which Israel has its equivalents, are fatal for America and ultimately for Israel. They will totally turn the overwhelming majority of the Middle East's population against the United States. The lessons of Iraq speak for themselves. Eventually, if neo-con policies continue to be pursued, the United States will be expelled from the region and that will be the beginning of the end for Israel as well."

Asked "Don't the deaths of so many innocent civilians in Qana in the south of Lebanon -- like the massacre in Haditha, Iraq, by American troops -- send a message to Arabs and Iranians that the 'new Middle East' coming from the US and Israel will amount to occupation, carnage and bloodshed?" Brzezinski replies "This is precisely why neocon policies are recklessly dangerous both to America and Israel."

In the interview which can be read at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/beginning-of-the-end-for-_b_26247.html Brzezinski said "The new element today is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the Israeli-Palestinian problem, the Iraq problem and Iran from each other. Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East. There may be people who deceive themselves into believing that. The solution can only come in the Israel-Palestinian issue if there is serious international involvement that supports the moderates from both sides, however numerous or few they are, but also creates the situation in which it becomes of greater interest to the warring parties to accommodate than to resist, both because of the incentives and the capacity of the external intervention to impose costs."

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